“What everyone is missing about climate change is that it’s not about saving the planet or about science: it’s about people. Earth will survive – it’ll be different, but it will carry on. Humans are the ones at risk.”

      • FrenziedFelidFanatic@yiffit.net
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        3 months ago

        “Humans are a cancer…” is a statement of fact. It is the solution that determines if someone is an ecofascist:

        … so we should kill off humans and cure the world

        is an ecofascist statement and is a problem.

        … and we are going to kill our host

        is still in the declarative form. Is is apparently defeatist/fatalist and may or may not be a problem depending on the other views of the person

        … so we should stop being cancerous.

        is more optimistic of human determinism. I think it is the most hopeful and helpful to our situation, but it is not inherently good, and not coming to this conclusion is not inherently bad.

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          3 months ago

          A cancer can’t just stop being cancerous. Calling humans a cancer inherently implies that they should be exterminated, saying “humans are a cancer so maybe they should stop doing cancer stuff” is just incoherent.

          Humans aren’t a cancer and saying that is ecofascist bullshit. Capitalism is a cancer and it should be exterminated.